MEL Equipment

Last updated May 14, 2025

MEL Equipment was a British manufacturer of radar, avionics and military radio equipment based in West Sussex.

History

The company was formed as Radio Transmission Equipment in March 1935 in south London. Later it was fully acquired by Philips and renamed Mullard Equipment Ltd. It moved to Crawley in 1961.^{[ citation needed ]}

In the 1970s, the company was employing around 2,250.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Products

Larkspur radio equipment
Clansman radio equipment
EKCO E390/564 airborne weather radar (for Concorde)
Microwave Airborne Digital Guidance Equipment
Precision approach radar ^[4]
Radar transponders

Products currently made by the Thales site

Cerberus Mission System for Royal Navy helicopters
Searchwater radar

References

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[1] Flight International October 1973

[2] Flight International October 1975

[3] Flight International August 1974

[4] New Scientist May 1977 Page 342

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